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Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. -- Barack Obama
Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning. -- Margaret Heffernan
Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy -- Frederick Dodson
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. -- Howard Rheingold
Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows -- John de Ruiter
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. -- Daniele Bolelli
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. -- Jason Collins
Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. -- Carl Rogers
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. -- Polly Toynbee
Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. -- Pema Chodron
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is. -- Jeff Jarvis
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness. -- Adyashanti
Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it. -- David Sheff
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. -- Niels Bohr
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. -- Allan Bloom
Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development. -- Li Keqiang
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security. -- James Gosling
Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. -- Erykah Badu
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome. -- Kristin Armstrong
Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. -- Michael Moore
Love is never giving up and yet a lot of surrender. Self-care. Truth. Trust. Openness. Growth. Courage. Faith. Collaboration. Compassion. Communication. Affection. Support. Passion. Joy. Warmth. Mindfulness. Rigorous self-work. Sympatico, empathy, flow. Forgiveness. -- Claudia Black
While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation. -- Narendra Modi
"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage. -- Alexander Weinstein
Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well. -- Pema Chodron
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love. -- David Deida
Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly. -- Stephen Richards
I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families. -- John Baldacci
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. -- Max de Pree
The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well -- Pema Chodron
Love flowers best in openness and freedom. -- Edward Abbey
Faith is a state of openness or trust. -- Alan Watts
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? -- Khalil Gibran
My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. -- Barack Obama
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. -- Ben Stein
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. -- Edward Teller
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation. -- Dalai Lama
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. -- Terry Pratchett
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. -- Gerald R. Ford
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. -- Marilyn Ferguson
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies. -- Morris Berman
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. -- Stephen Covey
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -- John Steinbeck
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. -- Frank Ocean
Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable. -- Jose Maria Aznar
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. -- David Cameron
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs. -- George Hickenlooper
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal. -- Johnny Depp
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. -- Wole Soyinka
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching. -- Naomie Harris
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us. -- Sam Harris
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. -- Andrew Weil
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. -- Gabe Newell
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. -- Christopher Nolan
Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it. -- Suze Orman
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery. -- Sam Harris
I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few. -- Shashi Tharoor
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable. -- Jonathan Haidt
I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg. -- Viggo Mortensen
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001. -- Michael Bloomberg
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen. -- Dan Stevens
Shift often from openness to closure. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. -- Herbie Hancock
Joy and openness come from our own contented heart. -- Gautama Buddha
The main character of any living system is openness. -- Ilya Prigogine
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. -- David Foster Wallace
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. -- bell hooks
Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility. -- Lili Taylor
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Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.... -- Ken Keyes Jr.
You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant. -- John de Ruiter
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. -- Alan Watts
The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. -- Edward Felten
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. -- Jared Diamond
Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness. -- Michelle Cruz
Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness. -- Michelle Cruz
We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. -- Jose Serrano
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation, -- Jens Stoltenberg
People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness. -- Miru Kim
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. -- Joan Halifax
...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain. -- Elizabeth Lesser
...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. -- Stephen King
American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. -- Joseph Nye
We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness. -- Russ Harris
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure. -- David Deida
Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony. -- Debasish Mridha
The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves. -- Niklas Zennstrom
Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honor! -- Pope Francis
Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. -- Bruce Lee
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination. -- Olympia Snowe
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness. -- Thomas Merton
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. -- Matthieu Ricard
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. -- Mary Pipher
Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering -- Iyanla Vanzant
Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment. -- Claudia Rankine
Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness- -- Susan Forward
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people. -- Cesar Pelli
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. -- bell hooks
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there. -- James Polshek
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. -- Henri Nouwen
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. -- David Steindl-Rast
Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery -- Charlotte Selver
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning. -- Dallas Willard
When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind. -- Mooji
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown. --
It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace. -- David Richo
Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that. -- Eric Schmidt
Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness. -- Rob Glaser

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